Stephen King Quotes

Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I'm the father of four daughters.

A wife is man's conscience, his children perpetuate his memory, wealth enables him to live, arms are needed to extirpate the tyrants.

If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

Watch over our child. Guide him safely from the ways of harm. Keep happy his heart, brave his soul, and rosy his cheeks. Guard with your life his hopes and dreams, for he is all that we have, all that we are, and all that we will ever be.

Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

I'm not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I'm pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn't think about the future.